Digitized Artistic Line-Drawings Database

This database is composed of 10 classes gathering 74 images. These artworks are copyrighted and are used here under the limitations of the Fair Use doctrine. We asked an artist to classify the 74 images according to its first pictorial impression, leading to the 10 classes (74 images) presented here.

Please, click on a drawing to see the Nc closest results to your query example, according to the 11 content-based features described in our submitted paper. Nc is the class size to which the query belongs.

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